This ad just popped up and it should be more infuriating than just mildly, But it’s more of Google being Google. How many different tiers of YouTube are there now so Alphabet can skim off slightly higher margins from each user possible? Premium LITE? Really? And I am just tickled by the fact that the main perk is not that it removes ads but that there will be slightly less of them. “Pay us to watch ads” Is the new corporate standard.

  • Boomer Humor Doomergod@lemmy.worldEnglish
    57·
    2 months ago

    There was a rule back in the 90s that the more words were used in the title of the software the worse it was. Adobe Photoshop was good. Corel DrawMaker 3.5 for Windows 98 Special Edition was crap.

  • eezeebee@lemmy.caEnglish
    22·
    2 months ago

    I prefer YouTube Premium Plus Silver tier. It still has ads, but they are premium ads, which I find go down my throat more smoothly. Anything less makes me gag.

  • Reygle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    “Buy this other ludicrous thing from us that you don’t want for partial benefit on this other thing you hate!”

  • darkmarx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 months ago

    “Pay us and watch ads” has been around a long time. That’s what cable tv was. We’ve gone full circle.

    One day, something new will come along and kill streaming in the same way streaming did cable. Once things get this fragmented, something else always comes along to replace it, and the cycle will repeat.

    It will be cheap, easy to use, and everyone will switch. Once enough people move over, the big corporations will get involved and the enshitification will begin. It will be adveetised to death, segmented, and people will look for an alternative.

  • Chais@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Wow, I could get that thing I don’t care for by paying for that other thing I don’t care for. What a great deal.

  • TheOrcWhoWrites@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    I’d rather pay more for no ads than pay less for a few select ads. This is ridiculous. Just like Netflix’s cheaper ad tier. SMH.

  • ryper@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 months ago

    The tier makes sense, if not the name. Google insists on including music streaming in Youtube Premium, and Premium Lite is a cheaper tier that doesn’t include music streaming. It’s missing some other features too, but it beats Premium for people who just want to not have ads and for some reason won’t use an ad blocker.

    This support page about Premium Lite says it has no ads on “most non-music content, excluding Shorts. Ads may appear when you search or browse”. Still having ads on music content makes sense given that Premium Lite doesn’t include music streaming.

    • Pika@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      You forgot to mention that it doesn’t allow for mobile queuing either. That was what made me drop my sub as a whole instead of just downgrading. I would rather just use ad block style services such as gray-jay than experience mobile youtube without the ability to queue videos. I use it heavily for going to sleep, and with how finicky the auto play system is for choosing what video it should play next, there’s no way I trust it to not absolutely screw my suggested videos.

      • huppakee@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Spotify has a lot of content that’s great for falling a sleep, tons of curated playlists and you can queue audio (i’m assuming your not actually watching videos anyway). O and also, if you let Spotify auto-play it never effects your suggested content on YouTube.

  • BeMoreCareful@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    It’s that circles thing all over again. Everyone get in the circles and put stuff in other circles here’s a firefly reference. YouTube, no it’s part of circle now, put all this stuff in circles and put your name on the YouTube comments so people can put you in circles. Put them in circles too. Little Google is going to take on Facebook put Facebook in circles too.